Drive over the beetle in your car and it won't even break a sweat. How does it do it? Jackson Ryan was CNET's science editor, and a multiple award-winning one at that. Earlier, he'd been a scientist, ...

There is a type of beetle known as the ironclad beetle in Southern California that is incredibly tough and hard to kill. The ironclad beetle is so strong it can survive being run over by a car.

The diabolical ironclad beetle can withstand forces up to 39,000 times its body weight. They can do that, researchers discovered, thanks to hardened casings on each wing that interlock and support the ...

If a fixed-wing drone survives a fall to the ground, it’s still screwed if it happens to land upside down. The same cannot be said for beetles like ladybugs. That’s because of their elytra, or the ...

One of the largest and strongest beetles in the world hardly seems the best inspiration for a delicate flying microbot. But using slow-motion cameras to capture the critters in flight, an ...

Beetles are classified in the order Coleoptera (sheath-wing). The front pair of wings is hardened into cases (called elytra) that can fold down to sheathe the other pair of wings and much of the rest ...

Are bug-like designs becoming the latest trend? German architect Achim Menges’ futuristic installation called the Elytra Filament Pavilion (“elytra” being the wing casings of a beetle), with its 2,000 ...

Scientists developing new materials are studying an unlikely source of strength: a beetle that can withstand being run over by a car. Researchers from Purdue University and the University of ...